Star Trek Voy - Season 7 - Episode 19
Problems
None
Factoids
- According to Icheb, Captain Kirk completed his historic five year mission in 2270
- Q and his son Q2 were played by father and son actors as well. Q = John de Lancie. Q2 = Keegan de Lancie.
Remarkable Scenes
- Janeway: "How many more chapters are there?" Icheb: "Thirty four." Janeway: This was supposed to be a twenty minute presentation." Icheb: "I was trying to be thorough."
- Q and Q2 appearing.
- Q2: "I've been through every deck on this ship. And do you know what I've seen? Bipeds pushing buttons. Bipeds replacing relays. Bipeds running diagnostics."
- Q2 removing Seven of Nine's cloths...
- Janeway: "Coffee. Black." Computer: "Make it yourself."
- Q2 having 3 Borg cubes attack Voyager.
- Q getting advice from Janeway.
- Q2: "What was that for?" Q: "What's wrong? You didn't enjoy life as an Oprelian amoeba?" Q2: "No! I was shapeless and slimy. The only thing to eat was paramecia!"
- Q2 asking Seven if he can see her naked again...
- Chakotay making Q2 solve a diplomatic problem.
- Q: "Potential isn't going to be enough for the Continuum." Janeway: "Then what will be enough?" Q: "The boy needs to display nothing less than exemplary Qness." Janeway: "And what exactly is Qness?" Q: "Oh it's impossible for your minuscule mind to comprehend."
- Q2 stealing the Delta flyer and blowing up the door on the shuttle bay.
- The alien Q2 fired upon revealing himself to actually be Q.
- Q rewarding Janeway by taking two years off her journey.
My Review
Marvelously hilarious. It is slightly annoying that the Q are being used for nothing more than comic relief, and this likely being the final Q episode is hardly a good send off. For some reason on TNG Q felt the need to be profound, and on Voyager he felt the need to be funny. With the exception of his first appearance on Voyager in Voy: Death Wish, which was one of Voyager's best episodes, all his appearances on Voyager have been little silly. This episode being absolutely no exception. And even Voy: Death Wish was quite silly compared to some of Q's TNG appearances. (Okay, I guess Q was trivialized on TNG a bit too.) That said, I don't mind it so much, it's just worth pointing out. It was a nice idea to have Keegan de Lancie play as Q's son, seeing as how he's the son of the actor playing Q. It made their interactions that much more realistic. It's interesting to compare and contrast this episode with the last one. Voy: Human Error was a profound character analysis of Seven of Nine. This episode is nothing more than cheap humor with a rather basic lesson in morality. Nevertheless, as fond as I was for Voy: Human Error's basic plot, the ending was quite lacking. Voy: Human Error was a better story for the most part, but this episode was much more entertaining, and lacked the fatal flaw of an anticlimax. Besides, it's fun to laugh, and this episode has lots of humor.
The following are comments submitted by my readers.
I never liked the Q-stories of the TNG and otherwise, because they are fanstasy and not SF. Only they are fun due to John de Lancie who is a very gifted and funny actor. Otherwise the whoke Q universe is complete stupidity. I wonder why the original series never ever came up which such utter nonsense and shite
I was neither impressed nor amused. Part of the fun with Q on TNG was the chemistry Picard/Q - there is not much of that with Janeway. Loads of overacting in the first part of it too. Then of course, the whole idea of these omnipotent beings is over the top.
I reacted to a few things that I found sexist, that is not usually in Trek - like Q jr q-uing away Seven's clothes (I liked her reaction though!), and the skimpily clad go-go dancers in Engineering.
The good from this ep: Itcheb, great acting!